Vaisala with Ireland’s National Roads Authority (NRA) has signed a €3.65 million agreement with Vaisala. The five-year contract will see Vaisala providing a comprehensive package of winter maintenance decision making tools, solutions and services. This will allow the NRA to optimise winter service to Irish road users. The deal involves a state of the art road weather information management system. The contract includes maintenance of over 80 weather stations across Ireland as well as a provision for expandi
October 21, 2013
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355 Vaisala with Ireland’s 5525 National Roads Authority (NRA) has signed a €3.65 million agreement with Vaisala. The five-year contract will see Vaisala providing a comprehensive package of winter maintenance decision making tools, solutions and services. This will allow the NRA to optimise winter service to Irish road users. The deal involves a state of the art road weather information management system. The contract includes maintenance of over 80 weather stations across Ireland as well as a provision for expanding the network with new weather stations and thermal mapping. A key element in the contract is the Vaisala RoadDSS Manager software which will help the authorities make accurate and on-time maintenance decisions by combining all relevant weather data into one interface.
The new contract is a continuation of a long-standing partnership. Since 1991, Vaisala has supplied road weather stations, thermal mapping, weather station maintenance, and technical support services to NRA.